#corvid plays games

[corvidfeathers]

a while back I was 1.5 hours into watching the 3 hour director’s cut of kingdom of heaven with @agarthanguide and thoroughly enjoying myself when I was struck with the dawning realization that I am never going to be able to convince anyone else to sit down and watch the full three hours of this with me and she was like, with audible glee, “you’re definitely not!”

#hannah playing the long game by befriending me via arthurian fic to have someone to watch kingdom of heaven (director’s cut) with #not really BUT she does know the best knight movies #corvid rambles

[vvalengogh]

fallout show spoilers I guess but I haven’t watched the new fallout show nor am i in a rush to watch it but all i have to say: the war on whether fnv was retconned or not is so silly. like ? what writing on the wall did y’all see to think that. first of all, sure, I wouldn’t put it past bethesda to be petty like that but from what I’ve seen and understand, fallout new vegas is still canon. it’s always been and i can’t fathom what made people think otherwise? all that happened is that the show alluded to a specific ending (ie; courier launching the nukes into shady sands). that, and bethesda had trouble conveying the timeline of events especially when 3, new vegas, and 4 all take place only a few years apart.

i understand that it was and it is an upsetting concept, i would’ve been sad if new vegas was retconned as well but arguing over what bethesda is telling you what isn’t and is canon is silly. that’s the beauty of creating; bethesda can’t stop you from calling new vegas canon even if it WAS or would’ve been retconned. even then, this would’ve been the show’s canon. the mainline game series is its own canon. not that neither can coexist together, I just consider the show separate from the universe the mainline series takes place in. and, again, to reiterate myself; even then bethesda would have to personally send me a cease and desist on my life to even so much stop considering new vegas canon and important to the rest of the world of fallout. bethesda can’t tell you what to do or think. do whatever, what’re they gonna do?? erase new vegas from our minds?? /lh

anyways this is what i think given on the fact it’s been stated multiple times already that new vegas is still very much canon to both the games AND the show. please don’t be mean to me or I’ll cry like a wet sopping dog

#corvid chatter #fallout show spoilers #I think #I’ll die before they try to retcon ANY mainline game #for all my criticism on other games new vegas isn’t perfect either #but I still love all the titles that came after the first 2 ones #and this is not me dissing the 2 first games! #I just haven’t played them

[knight-of-heart-and-art]

I'm playing KH:358/2 Days again

#corvid's bs #kingdom hearts #i love playing games where 12 year old me immediately sees something and makes themself VERY loud about it

[omophagic-beast]

tears of the kingdom day

#everyone should clap for me being at work rn and not just sitting at home waiting for the UPS man to deliver my copy #like owo #the AMOUNT of PEOPLE posting VIDEOS PLAYING THIS GAME RN #usually i like to put on a lil lets play a lil streamy stream when im workin #cant do that today IG #cause im genuinely trying to avoid spoilers for once in my life #because the first time i saw a dragon in BOTW and didnt know what it was was the best part of the game #auughgdjkgbdfsghfdsg #corvid caws #capitalisms strongest soldier today

[abysslll]

🎵

i really only associate this song with stella bc i used to listen to it on loop while playing spiritfarer, but i digress

#corvid <3 #endless asks #ask games #spiritfarer #luce draws stuff #pulling out all the stops for this ask game i haven't played spiritfarer in a year

[outtoshatter]

I know you reblogged it hours ago but here's a made-up title: Silent Wings

Wait how could you do this to me knowing about my first fandom, [redacted]!!!

I would probably use this title for either a Stiles-is-a-winged-creature AU, or possibly some kind of dragon story. Oooh or that one corvid-shifter Stiles AU I've been brewing in the back of my mind for months...

#ask games #also i dont care how long ago i reblogged it i always want to play #hahahaha #gia talks #the corvid shifter stiles idea is looking better and better #maybe i will steal this fake title and use it lololol #i am not one for subtle meaningful titles LOL

[bluejay-writes]

💀: how is your relationship with belphie?

Haha I bet this goes sideways to expectations since my kids have VERY different experiences from canon MCs. Nia: Great! After those weeks bonding in the attic, you tend to spend a lot of time in companionable silence, usually the two of you and Satan in the library. Sure, Belphie might be sleeping for a lot of it, but he usually absorbs whatever you're studying at the time anyway.

Jake: This boy met Belphie at the first exchange party, and was one of the few brothers that he exchanged numbers with at the time. They are by far the most chatty pair over text, but when they get in the same room, Belphie just naps on Jake to make the boy sit still for once in his life. I dare say they're besties. Beel isn't jealous. Nope.

ask me questions for my OCs to answer!

#ask game #obey me MCs #this is the first time someone's played an ask game i posted #corvids gotta stick together - thanks etcrow

[witchofthesouls]

I just read your seeker bird kiddo (Jack) and Truck dad Optimus adventures and I beg for more content, I adore it all and the spOoky cryptic parts are 👌

👁️👄👁️

Jack accidentally triggers mechs’ protective instincts because he makes baby bird noises to mimic the local corvids. It doesn't help that Jack parks himself at the entrance to the Ark and plays games with the more playful blackbirds. Dadimus is very much used to Jack’s imitations, the rest of the Autobots (and his counterpart) are most definitely not.

The chirping and screes are reminiscent of newsparks’ calls for attention and care, and it drives the resident Seekerkin up the wall because he is the only sparkling in the vicinity and Jack punches the Seekerkin-coding into activity after four million years of dormancy.

There have been a few jokes to take a recording of the sparkling’s noises and play it to the Decepticon Seekers after the Autobots had seen their own Seekerkin with the kid. TFP Optimus is immediately No. Stop. Control, Alt, and Delete that terrible plan. He will take Jack and run into the most remote environments he can find.

No one knows how Jack did it, but the blackbirds got into gambling, and everyone blames Smokescreen. 

He's partly to blame with the cards, but the dice is Bluestreak's fault.

Jack is a polite menace. The kid knows his manners, but that doesn't stop him from skipping up the walls, hanging on the ceiling, and popping into places that he shouldn't have access to. At all.

Mechs were confused why Dadimus pinged out so often but then realized that's the most reliable way to actually tag Jack as he's a slippery little thing. Sometimes the sparkling responds, but usually he doesn't.

Red Alert is on the verge of having an aneurysm since Jack can bypass all the security measures. Mechs have taken to looking up to see if Jack is trapezing on the panels or checking under the tables and desks because of near unfortunate incidents of almost shooting the kid or shock-related delays with time-sensitive chemical reactions that nearly turned the ship into a massive crater.

Dadimus was highly disappointed and upset by the last part as Jack knows better as he had done similar stunts when they were upon research vessels. Not only Jack had to apologize to Skyfire, Wheeljack, and Perceptor, but he wasn't allowed to stray from Dadimus' field for a month. ("Curiosity cannot override safety protocols.")

On one camera, Jack would be at a corner by the entrance with organic birds, and between blinks he would then disappear and reappear across the ship, talking excitedly to a random corner with a different group of birds.

(If anyone catches them at the right second, at the right angle, at the right frame... the raven/crow/jackdaw/jay will ripple. Feathers dripping and flowing like an inky waterfall and eyes splitting into multiple, countless pairs as Jack's shadow expands- And then, the watcher will blink because they have to, and the footage will reset. Devoid of Jack and blackbirds.)

There's talk about new cryptids going around. It's silly Halloween and superstitious nonsense… until it isn't.

Due to Smokescreen, Bluestreak, and the Aerialbots constantly monitoring the perimeter or setting traps that are becoming more elaborate each week, it's becoming a new running joke. It's the Autobot snipe-hunting. All because of Jack's devoted drawings of strange, contorted creatures.

They're adamant that something is outside.

(They’re right).

An eerie thing begins to appear at the nearby dunes by the Ark’s entrance. It’s vaguely canine and its size is constantly changing. They can smell a wildfire in the air and taste ash upon their tongues as it beckons them to follow with a heavy, burning gaze. 

Before anyone follows, a racket of shrieking blackbirds breaks them out of the trance. When the piercing noise fails, then a nasty peck to some skin or exposed protoform is enough to bring them back to their senses.

“It’s looking for something that can’t be regained,” Jack speaks with a keenness beyond his age and a lilting cadence. A flurry of pictures of the same dark canine by a campfire with multiple individuals and groups sitting by it. It remains unchanged, despite the others’ fashions and vehicles it managed to beckon to it. “Don’t be taken by its ancient sorrow. You won’t escape its grasp.”

Between the space of desert and forest, there’s an old barbwire fence and a seemingly endless dusty dirt road that has never been updated to proper asphalt, despite its existence for over a century and all the grumbles and complaints by humans and Cybertronians.

When it rains, a phantom of a massive stag appears. Dark and regal, it gently trods along the path, always towards the forest, never in the opposite direction. Perched upon its twisted antlers is an owl with multiple wings, spread out and spotted with many painted eyes, a feathered and watchful halo with a cry that echoes in everyone’s ears and audials. It leaves no tracks, just deep puddles with flickering shapes in its vast depths that immediately dry when people look away.

The mechs start to understand that the local humans’ grumblings and complaints are half-hearted, and when it starts to drizzle, everyone stays inside. 

“It’s older than all those that vaguely remember its beginnings,” Jack murmurs to a window full of drawings in the condensation, sleepy in the colder weather as he curls in a heated seat. “Dreaming and wandering, yet always returning to the place that crowned it King.”

#ask #transformers #crossover #transformers g1 #transformer prime #g1 #tfp #jack darby #optimus prime #optimus #cybertronian biology #cybertronian culture #parental relationship #humanformers #humans into cybertronians #magic #creature #deaged #bluestreak #smokescreen #maccadam #My writing #love your local metal bird boy of a cryptid menace #old gods and ancient vows

[aihoshiino]

A character I wish got more attention was the crow girl. Like we saw she got a role in the movie and that’s it nothing else. Haven’t seen her be cryptic or anything.

I wanna know what your thoughts are on this, especially since she supposed to play as the twins!!

I'm super curious about her! I think it's kind of weird that her inclusion in the movie ended up being so Nothing when it was presented as such a big deal but I guess we'll see more of her if we ever get to the scenes of baby AQRB. Though wtf does it even imply about her existence in the world that they were able to hire her.

As a feature of the story, I don't necessarily disagree with the fandom consensus that she's mostly an exposition dispenser but tbh I don't mind it THAT much. There's been some capital I Implications from hour zero that AQRB's reincarnation was no accident or coincidence so I think having a supernatural character who is in the loop end up guiding them along in certain directions for unknown purposes is pretty interesting. I also think there's some really juicy thematic Vibes in the idea of there being a dubiously antagonistic force who, rather than lying, manipulates and beats the twins around with painful truths they don't want to acknowledge.

As a CHARACTER... I definitely think she suffers a lot from Akasaka's reliance on mystery box storytelling. She was definitely just introduced to be spooky and weird and to imply greater secrets about her existence but none of that has really resolved into anything meaningful or even that engaging about her, because she's just held together with exposition glue and mystery tape. Not that I dislike her or anything! It's just a case of like, wow the guy writing you really isn't sure what to do with you lol

In fact, I have a secret suspicion that Akasaka changed his mind on who and what she was supposed to be partway through the manga?? Like, the corvid associations and general spookiness had pretty much everyone I know going "so she's Yatagarasu? OK" from basically hour zero only for him to hit us with the Tsukuyomi steel chair out of nowhere!!! I don't think she was even associated with the moon imagery wise at all until the heavy handed mention of it just prior to her name getting dropped so I really do think Akasaka just. Initially wrote her as Yatagarasu and then changed his mind HAHA

On an unrelated note, I've been playing Okami again and one of the plot coupons in that game is a sword named Tsukuyomi and every time it got name dropped I went

#oshi no ko #oshi no posting #onk asks #onk spoilers

[onesettleronebullet]

I wanna play a game - what is the default species of each of these categories of bird that you think of:

Pigeon

Waterfowl

Corvid

For me, it's Woodpigeon, Mallard, and Magpie :3

#newpad.txt

[corvidfeathers]

swansong werewolf level. help

#i looked up a walkthrough and discovered if you lose leysha dies for real and there's no going back and now i am so scared to play it #i hate in games when things chase you #vtm swansong #corvid rambles

[aro-langblr]

I was tagged by @nihongoseito to do the super cute animal crossing picrew and Nine People I'd like to Know Better tag game!

Thank you, Sasha! I had fun doing these, and I appreciate the tag. I've never played animal crossing before though, so I hope my design looks decent for that one haha;;

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super cute animal crossing picrew, include a personal achievement you unlocked recently

unlocked achievement! 🎊元気な生活🎊 - successfully discovered joy in the form of old hobbies

tagging: @corvid-language-library, @dejlige-dage, and @madam-of-lithuania

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Nine People I'd Like To Know Better tag game

Last Song I Listened To: Tag, You're It by Melanie Martinez

Currently Watching: ninjago, unsuprisingly

Sweet, Savoury, or Spicy?: my sweet tooth is unfortunately insatiable

Relationship Status: single / aromantic

Current Obsession: ninjago. oh my god, the obsession is so real. blorbo from my shows, save me :)))

Tagging: @acuityinnovations, @mini-cakes, @unhonestlymirror, @hindisoup, @mediocrelanguagelearner, @blumensprache, @captaindelilahbard and anyone else who'd like to do this

#my brain literally just rotates beween 3 media series and it has since I was like 12 #tagged

[vvalengogh]

i bring a sort of “i play this game too fucking fast” vibe to fallout 4 that my ps4 don’t really like

#corvid chatter #parker can vouch for this #my game has actually given up before bc i just go around playing it like it’s about to explode #fallout games #fallout 4 #fo4

[knight-of-heart-and-art]

bought a usb ps2 style controller at 5below and hoooly shit i love this thing

#EXCELLENT #great to play vampire survivors with #gonna look at my other games and try them out later #corvid's bs

[painfullymeta]

Posting an Actual Gaming Story

The catboy bard is currently trying to learn spirit magic, and thus had, in an interlude in game, gone off to try to make friends with some spirits. Specifically crow spirits, because a) he actually speaks a little Corvid and b) he was hoping to find someone capable of running messages and "bird" is a good bet for that kind of thing.

So, being a sensible catboy for this thing, he got a big bag of mixed nuts and went to a park to feed the birds and chat with them, and eventually attracted a bunch of normal crows, fairy crows, and spirit crows to load up with peanuts. (And of course crows gossip so "there's a guy with a bag of treats in the park and he even speaks a reasonable language" is likely to draw a crow-d.)

[dialogue exchanges are paraphrased]

The GM: Draw, difficulty 16, for each point above 16 you manage you get +1 spirit crow friends for a bit.

[note: rather than dice, this game system works on drawing cards from a slightly modified playing card deck; two of the kings are removed]

Me: [draws the King of Hearts, a critical success for which no numbers are calculated]

The GM: You are now being followed around by a mixed flock of crows who are in it for the peanuts and the "this could be interesting!"

Me, table talk: I accidentally an entire murder. Is it dangerous?

(We tipped the waitstaff at the restaurant afterwards _heavily_. Because OMGBIRDS.)

#content generated by me #gaming #catboy bard tag #memetic mutations

[abysslll]

5, 19 and 20 for the music asks

5. Do you enjoy mashups?

it depends, but not generally

19. Favourite video game / movie soundtrack?

already answered, spirited away!

20. Do you listen to music constantly or only once in a while?

if i'm not watching anime or youtube i am listening to music

#corvid <3 #endless asks #the only time i'm not playing something in the background is when i'm going to sleep #ask games